San Pedro Sola, Honduras – The United States sent 68 migrants from Honduras and Colombia to their countries on Monday on the first flight of the government for the Trump administration’s volunteer deportation.
In the city of San Pedro Sola, in the northern city
US President Donald Trump promised to increase the deportation significantly. Experts believe that the self -transmission offer will only attract a small part of immigrants who are already thinking of returning, but it is unlikely to stimulate the high demand. This offer was associated with high -resolution immigrant arrests in the United States and flying a few hundred Venezuelan immigrants to the Aqsa Security Prison in El Salvador.
Kevin Antonio Posadas, of Teguccalpa, had lived in Houston for three years, but he was already considering returning to Honduras when the Trump administration announced its offer.
“I wanted to see my family and my mother,” he added, adding that the operation was easy.
“You are just applying (through the CBP Home application) and for three days you got it,” he said. Houston left the trip early on Monday. “That’s good because you save the cost of the trip if you have the intention to leave.”
Posadas said he was not afraid of deportation and loved to live in the United States, but he was thinking for some time to go home. In the end, he said that he would consider addressing the US government’s offer to allow those who are self -sent to apply for the United States legally.
Honduran immigrant, who voluntarily returned from the United States, walks after arriving at Ramon Velida Morales Airport in San Pedro Sola, Honduras, on Monday, May 19, 2025.
AP Photo/Delmer Martinez
In a statement about the trip on Monday, US Detimental Security Security Secretary Christie said: “If you are illegally here, use the CBP Home app to control your departure and receive financial support to return home.
According to the US Department of Homeland Security.
Honduras Foreign Minister Antonio Garcia said that the Honduran government will also support returning immigrants of $ 100 in cash and another $ 200 in a government store that sells basic necessities.
Garcia said that one of the immigrants who voluntarily arrive on Monday is four children born in the United States.
Garcia, who met the migrants coming to the airport, said that they told him that the presence in the United States without documents required for legal migration or residence was increasingly difficult, that things grow more hostile and that they are afraid to go to work.
However, the number of Hondurians deported from the United States so far this year is less than last year, said the director of immigration in Honduras Wilson Baz.
Baz said that while about 13,500 Hondes were deported from the United States this year, the number was more than 15,000 by this time in 2024.
The number was not expected to accelerate much, despite the intentions of the Trump administration.
He said that some may continue to apply for self -reporting, because they feel that their time in the United States has ended or because it is difficult to work.
“I don’t think it will be thousands of people who are applying for the program,” Paz said. “Our responsibility is that it comes in an organized way and we support them.”
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Gonzalez of Teguccalpa, Honduras.
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